On 10-Jan-2000 Jordi wrote: > Hello! > > If you remember, I packaged tip (which made it into Potato this night), but > there was a namespace problem with it, as there is an net app with the same > name, although not included in Debian. > > Upstream maintainer decided to rename to NANO, so I need to change the > package name now. I haven't seen anything about this procedure in the > manual, so I don't know what to do so the installer knows it's an old > package with a new name. Any clue? > > Ah, if anyone knows about any problem with the new name "nano", please tell > me! >
well since it is so new, perhaps you should request it be removed (release critical bug on ftp.debian.org) and upload a new package. Realize that the new package will be treated as a completely new package.